#WorldLionDay
— Alison Fisk (@AlisonFisk) August 10, 2026
Beautiful lioness vessel from Knossos Palace, Crete.
Carved from semi-translucent limestone, this is a fabulous example of the skill of Minoan stone carving 3,500 years ago!
Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me#Archaeology pic.twitter.com/MWTcpRYqsa
Footage of McDonalds in 1984 might be the most radicalizing thing you watch today.
— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) August 12, 2026
How do we get this back? pic.twitter.com/AZFpXRFtDV
This is, as one has come to expect from @Tyler_A_Harper, exquisite writing. The downside is that it gave me PTSD.
— Melissa Chen (@MsMelChen) August 11, 2026
It's a monumental loss to our civilization that the talented and morally courageous are weeded out from the academic system, so that the only ones left with the… https://t.co/xVvzBlxesy pic.twitter.com/XtcL0NbTjL
No matter how many times I see this, I don’t understand it. 🤷🏽♂️ pic.twitter.com/dOWsFR0R8w
— The Curious Tales (@thecurioustales) August 10, 2026
“If woman ran the world”… bitch they can’t run a league that’s funded by men. https://t.co/U8aeuGqE92
— EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) August 13, 2026
Yeah this is pretty grim, 5.7% * 28.9% = 1.6%. I guess this explains my uneasiness with freezing embryos as cope. https://t.co/cIkPKpyXzL pic.twitter.com/mXdbqaJliM
— Nuño Sempere (@NunoSempere) August 10, 2026
The bizarre Horned Helmet of Henry VIII (1514).
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 11, 2026
The rest of his armor was melted down for scrap after the English Civil War, but they spared this helmet because it looked too weird. It features a toothy grin, copper spectacles, and a carved snot drip. pic.twitter.com/Uzjg3nz1Wc
https://t.co/cNEr3dSED8 pic.twitter.com/zWiUSorhXo
— Richard Nixon Foundation (@nixonfoundation) August 11, 2026
A single lightning strike can reach temperatures nearly 5 times hotter than the surface of the sun.
— U.S. Department of the Interior (@Interior) August 10, 2026
At White Sands National Park, that incredible heat can fuse gypsum sand into formations called fulgurites, better known as "fossilized lightning." pic.twitter.com/bxX7vQ4MjK
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